ABSTRACT
In the last two substantive chapters in this book, I will draw on several of the concepts that have been introduced so far. To a certain extent, this has been the pattern of the book overall: each chapter leads cumulatively to the next. Here at the end, though, Chapters 11 and 12 deal, respectively, with the notion of character and the notion of the worlds that they inhabit. These are the two essential aspects of almost every literary text, whether narrative or lyric, poetry or prose, fiction or confession or moral satire or realist drama or epic or comedy or tragedy, and so on.
